West Quotes - Page 5

• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  Danica McKellar

  Jobs, Math, Media

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• I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

  Marian McPartland

  New York, West Coast, Rhythm

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

  David Miliband

  Christian, Climate, East

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

  Joni Mitchell

  Home, Oxen, People

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• Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

  Maria Mitchell

  Strong, Hands, Growing

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

  Robert Mugabe

  East, Looks, Policy

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• One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Real, Thinking, Wings

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• Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

  Nas

  New York, Attitude, War

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.

  Liam Neeson

  New York, Europe, People

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• I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Home, East, Mixtures

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1989). “Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India”, Vintage

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• And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

  Willie Nelson

  Guitar, Stuff, Jimmy

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• Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Manhattan, Littles

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

  Bill Nighy

  Doe, Way, Hunger

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• Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Block

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• In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.

  Conan O'Brien

  Blow, Men, Virginia

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• The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Easter, Real, War

  "THE CULTUREPULP Q&A: 'Persepolis' creator Marjane Satrapi". Interview with Mike Russell, culturepulp.typepad.com. January 25, 2008.

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• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Nature, Imagination

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Yale University Press

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• Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

  Brad Paisley

  Virginia, Hillbilly, Deep Down

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

  Steven Pinker

  Gun, Cowboy, Europe

  "Is Human Violence On The Wane?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Christian, Doe, East

  "Connect the World" with Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2012.

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• The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract.

  Grace Slick

  Simple, Rocks, Talking

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• I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Political, Foundation

  Interview with TF-1 Television Channel (France), en.kremlin.ru. July 12, 2006.

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• Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

  Anthony Quinn

  Railroads, Mexico, West Coast

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• I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Thinking, Long, Dresses

  "Queen Rania to Fareed Zakaria:" We need to build channels of communication"". Interview with Fareed Zakaria, www.queenrania.jo. September 01, 2008.

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• The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophical, Islamic, Doubt

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